Information Technology Systems & Services
Web Design Glossary
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A
- Abbreviation Element
- Accessibility (Web)
- Accesskey
- Affinity Diagram
- AJAX
- Audio Description
- Adaptive Technology
- Alternative Interface Access Protocol (AIAP)
- Alt Attribute
- Alt Tag
- Alt Text
- Alternate Stylesheet
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anti-alias
- A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt)
- Applet
- Array
- Assistive Technology
- Assignment Operator
- Attribute
- Authoring Tool
B
- Baseline
- Backward Compatible
- Blindness
- Block Level Element
- Bobby
- Box Model
- Braille
- Breadcrumbs
- Browser
- Browser Style Sheet
C
- Card Sorting
- Cascade
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Captions
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
- Child
- Chunking
- "Click Here"
- Cognitive Disability
- Cognitive Walkthrough
- Color Contrast
- Color Deficiency
- Color Saturation
- Content Management System
- Controlled Vocabulary
- Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP)
- Consistency
- Contextual Inquiry
- Contextual Selector
- Control Structures
D
- Data Table
- Deafness
- Declaration
- Deep Linking
- Degrade Gracefully
- Deliverable
- Device Independence
- Deprecated
- Descendant Selectors
- Disability
- Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
- Dithering
- Digital Divide
- D link
- Doctype, Document Type Definition (DTD)
- Doctype Switching
- Document Tree
- Dots Per Inch (DPI)
- Dyslexia
E
- Embedded Style Sheet
- Electronic and Information Technology (EIT)
- Element
- Equivalent
- Ethnographic Study - See Field Observation
- Em Unit
- Em-box
- Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) - See XHML
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) -See XML
- Extensible Style Language (XSL) - See XSL
- External Style Sheet
- Eyetracking
F
- Feature Inspection
- Field Observation (Ethnographic Study)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Flash
- Float
- Focus Groups
- Following Element
- Font Element
- Font-size
- Formal Usability Inspection
- Frames
- Front Door
- Function
G
- Gantt Chart
- GIF
- Global Navigation - See Primary Navigation
- Glyph
- Graceful Degradation
- Granularity
- Greek Text
- GUI
- Guideline Checklists
H
- Half-leading
- HCI
- Head Pointer
- Headings
- Hearing Disability
- Hexadecimal
- Heuristic (Expert) Evaluation
- Hierarchy
- Horizontal Scrolling
- Hue
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
I
- ID Attributes and Selectors
- If Structure
- If...else Structure
- @import rule
- Inclusive Design
- Image Map
- Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
- Information Architect
- Information Architecture
- Inline Box
- Inline Element
- Inline Style Sheet
- Inquiry
- Inheritance
- Inspection
- Inverted Pyramid
- Internal Style Sheet- See Embedded Style Sheet
- Iterative Design
J
K
L
- Labels
- Layout Table
- Language Attribute
- Leading
- Legibility
- Likert Scale
- Line-box
- Line-height
- Lines Per Inch (LPI)
- Linearized Table
- Link Element
- Link Rot
- Liquid Design
- Local Navigation
- Logical Operator
- Longdesc
- Look and Feel
- Lorem Ipsum
- Low Vision
- Lynx
M
- Margin
- Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
- Markup
- Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA)
- Multimedia
- MySQL
N
- Navigation
- Negative Space - See White Space
- News Aggregator
- Non-replaced Element
O
P
- Padding
- Paper Prototype
- Persistent Stylesheet
- PHP
- Pixel
- Pixels Per Inch (PPI)
- Pluralistic Walkthrough
- Plug-in
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Portable Network Graphics format (PNG)
- Preferred Stylesheet
- Pseudo-class
- Pseudo-element
- Presentational Markup
- Primary Navigation
- Progressive Enhancement
- Property
- Prototype
Q
R
S
- Samples Per Inch (SPI)
- Sans Serif
- Saturation
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Scanning
- Screen Snapshots
- Screen Magnifier
- Screen Reader
- Scope
- Scope Creep
- Section 508
- Selector
- Semantics
- Self-reporting Logs
- Serif
- Skip Navigation
- Spacer Images
- Specificity
- Standards - See Web Standards
- Standards Inspection
- Standards Mode
- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
- Statement
- Storyboard
- Structure
- Style Sheets See Cascading Style Sheets and Extensible Stylesheet Language
- Style Attribute
- Style Element
- Survey
- Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
T
- Tabular Information
- Table Summary Attribute
- Tag
- Tag Soup
- Tag Line
- Task Scenario
- Taxonomy
- Template
- Testing - See Usability Testing
- Text Equivalent
- Text Only Browser
- Thinking Aloud Protocol
- Transcript
- Typography
U
- Universal Access
- Universal Selector
- Universal Design
- Universality
- Usability
- Usability Lab
- Usability Testing
- User Agent
- User Style Sheet
- User Centered Design (UCD)
- User Interface Markup Language (UIML)
V
- Value
- Variable
- Valid HTML
- Validation
- Veranda
- Vertical- align
- Visual Disability
- Voice Input
- Voice Output
- Voice Recognition
- Voice Recognition Software
- Voice XML
W
- WAVE
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Web Standards
- Website
- Well-Formed
- White Space
- While Structure
- Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
- Wireframe
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
X
- Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Extensible Style Language (XSL)